Public Safety committee  And I would say that at the end of the day it comes down to the public we're trying to serve, and if sources don't come forward and the stories don't get told, we're ultimately doing a disservice to them.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we're supporting this definition.

Public Safety committee  Yes, the coalition is supporting the definition.

Public Safety committee  I can speak only for the CBC. We have a series of checks and balances, both in terms of our journalistic practices and our values around these things. There are checks and balances all the way through.

Public Safety committee  I'm going to surprise the committee and tell you that millennials are actually interested in journalism. CBC News reaches 52% of millennials in this country via digital media. They consume it in a different way. They don't consume it on television or radio, but maybe via podcas

Public Safety committee  As the woman on the panel, I will take that. We have fantastic female investigative journalists and see no gender imbalance in who does this work, but we were concerned with the framing of this in Quebec, which I referenced in my opening remarks, around Marie-Maude Denis and the

Public Safety committee  We are seeing clear fragmentation in the environment around journalism. We have multiple sources of information and people choosing to go only to certain sources that sometimes just reaffirm their own point of view. With the rise of digital and social channels, you have incredibl

Public Safety committee  The RTDNA, which is one of the journalism organizations in Canada, recently did a survey about trust in media. One of the findings is that trust in mainstream sources of media has increased in this age of fake news. I would be happy to get it if it's of interest.

Public Safety committee  I think it's probably unrelated, but we have an obligation as journalistic organizations not only to connect with schools to encourage people to consider journalism as a profession, but also to invest in critical thinking and journalism education in terms of how to consume media.

Public Safety committee  I'll just add to that. Any piece of investigative journalism is built on a mountain of information, which includes documents and other kinds of source material in addition to people. With a touchy investigation, we do more than double-source. We have multiple people around anythi

Public Safety committee  I'll put an accent on it outside of Quebec. When we were investigating sexual harassment within the RCMP, we had more than 50 sources within the RCMP tell us that they were more afraid of the internal climate within the organization than the criminal activity they were dealing wi

Public Safety committee  Freelancers connected to the CBC would be considered part of the CBC for the nature of this exercise. I hear the point, but I also think the reality is that a lot of the investigative journalism in this country would be captured by this bill, and for the greater good, it's a rea

Public Safety committee  I'll defer to Sébastien on the benchmarks worldwide, but it's our view and that of the coalition overall that this represents a significant step forward in this country, both in the level of oversight in terms of the judicial intervention and in reframing the process for access t

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, good afternoon. My name is Jennifer McGuire. I'm the general manager and editor-in-chief for CBC News. I wish to thank all of you for this opportunity to address this important topic once again. I'd like to stress right up front how impo